Units selling Is Just for sheeps.... I am a WolfAnd yet Microsoft never mentions how many units they shipped or how much money they made, just how many users they have. Weird how that works.
Personally, I feel that people love to hate Microsoft, but at the same time they need better games. Near the end of the Xbox 360 and the beginning for the Xbox One they kind of dropped the ball. But now with the Xbox One X, scarlet, expanding their libraries to PC, putting Xbox Live on more devices, crossplay, play anywhere, gamepass with 3rd party titles, etc. You can see that they want to grow the user base and bring more and more people together regardless of platform.
Meanwhile, Sony is trying to keep everything closed off to make sure that they keep there community segregated. In the end Sony has fantastic games, but their business practices will end up hurting 3rd parties and Indies in the end. They’ve always seemed so arrogant to me, but I guess the games are the reason why I own a PS4 Pro. I think, that since the PlayStation Brand has been around longer, people have more of a sense of nostalgia towards them.
Do you have any examples where this has occurred?
The vast majority of those 84 million* were in US/Can UK...i don't see how what you're saying and what I'm saying can't co-exist.Xbox 360 sold 84 million consoles, I think I think I would count that as a success. PS3 only sold 3 million more and I think that happened towards the end of the last gen. Xbox 360 was ahead until near the end I beleive.
You say this like the U.S., U.K. and Canada are three tiny islands off the coast of Europe.
I do.Micro$oft wouldn't be able to handle someone with a big dick like Kojima, believe me.
The vast majority of those 84 million* were in US/Can UK...i don't see how what you're saying and what I'm saying can't co-exist.
The question posed is about the hearts of gamers, not sales totals. So yes, 3 countries where you have some hearts won over (and in the UK and Can is isn't THAT strong) is a pittance in the world. Go outside of these three countres and mention console gaming and TROTW will think Nintendo or PlayStation brand, not XBox
I've also noticed other recently created accounts with very familiar rhethoric, but I think mods are on to them. Anyway, I think that's off topic for here.I am guessing Fluzer is an alt account from some recently banned GAF member?
nothing Microsoft did has ever been innovative or ever blown minds. I was PC gaming in the 90s and Microsoft was only known to me for actively making gaming worse. Anyone else ever try playing Doom on Windows?
Mostly, it’s just the style. Steve Jobs said it best Microsoft has no taste. Everything they do feels generic and poorly engineered to me. I like the weirder stranger Japanese stuff. Seeing Super Mario Bros in the 80s was a mind blowing experience and Nintendo keeps delivering those. I haven’t had a Microsoft moment as exciting as what Nintendo was doing 30 years ago
The simple answer is MS is too big, they are considered a megacorp. The cool kids think it's not cool to support mega corps only the underdogs. In some ways that thinking is good because you never want a megacorp to control the whole industry.I see it all over, when you mention Sony as a gaming company you're met with them "Oh they're great, they make some amazing games. I love PlayStation" and Nintendo the same. But whenever Microsoft is mentioned in a positive light, you're sideyed and met with confused looks. Sony and Nintendo are synonymous with gaming, Microsoft wrecked any chance for such recognition when they decided gaming was an afterthought, I believe this was in 2009 when Kinect took over and Microsoft's exclusives drought started.
I will give Microsoft for credit for games/franchises like Halo, Gears, Forza, Fable, Lost Odysessy, Alan Wake, Blue Dragon, Crimson Skies, Blood Wake, Sunset Overdrive and Ori but why do you think these games weren't enough to win over gamers? Also, do you think Microsoft being a fat cat American company had any bearing on people's perception of Xbox? Do you think people just like to root for the underdogs who are Sony and Nintendo in this case?
You are not being serious when you say never has been innovative are you?nothing Microsoft did has ever been innovative or ever blown minds. I was PC gaming in the 90s and Microsoft was only known to me for actively making gaming worse. Anyone else ever try playing Doom on Windows?
Mostly, it’s just the style. Steve Jobs said it best Microsoft has no taste. Everything they do feels generic and poorly engineered to me. I like the weirder stranger Japanese stuff. Seeing Super Mario Bros in the 80s was a mind blowing experience and Nintendo keeps delivering those. I haven’t had a Microsoft moment as exciting as what Nintendo was doing 30 years ago
Even though you do not know the full story as to why it was cancelled?Cancelling Scalebound is what pushed me to become a permanent Micro$oft hater.
Why? Hmmm
Maybe this?
Or this?
When you make "being AMERICAN" the centre of your marketing, how do you expect the rest of the world to react?
MS alienated itself from the rest of the world, no surprise that other companies took advantage of that.
Sony is completely out of touch with the gaming community and always has been. Besides, they're cancerous to the industry.MS is completely out of touch with the gaming community and always has been. Besides, they're cancerous to the industry.
Nobody said people got offended, those people just did not get captivated by a product that identifies itself through American stereotypes.If a cheeseburger and doritos chips offends people so much, maybe they should grow a backbone. lol
I'm not American and that burger ad is fantastic.Why? Hmmm
Maybe this?
Or this?
When you make "being AMERICAN" the centre of your marketing, how do you expect the rest of the world to react?
MS alienated itself from the rest of the world, no surprise that other companies took advantage of that.
Wait, people liked the original Xbox? lol
Exactly my point. And having an worldwide reveal that completely ignored the whole world, except America only reinforced that image.Nobody said people got offended, those people just did not get captivated by a product that identifies itself through American stereotypes.
Wait, people liked the original Xbox? lol
People acting like xbox lacks games. XD
They’re not wrong though.
The last AAA new IP that stuck around to earn a sequel was Gears of War back in 2006.
13 years ago.
I've said before that Microsoft is into box checking, and I think that's a pretty fair assessment of them.Maybe I'm wrong, but.. I see Microsoft as predictable trend seeking company. That has hurt them in my eyes. Nintendo and Sony have more warmth and passion from what I can perceive.
But that's a really personal opinion. Maybe a lot of other people don't agree. But that's my answer to the OP's question.